JOHANNESBURG: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's push to reduce rural poverty and quell growing anger over unequal access to property faces further delays after a member of an advisory panel on the issue on Friday rejected key aspects of the plan.
Land ownership is a controversial and emotive issue in South Africa where racial inequality persists more than two decades after the end of apartheid, during which millions of the black majority were dispossessed of their land by the white minority.While protests over land, housing and poverty gather pace ahead of national elections in May, lawmakers are drafting a bill to make changes to Section 25 of the constitution which sets out criteria for land reform and land rights.
Dan Kriek, head of non-profit agricultural association AgriSA and appointed by Ramaphosa to the panel, said on Friday he and one another member of the group had refused to sign the final report due to be handed to the president on Apr 24."We have released an alternative report setting out perspectives on land reform based on proven agricultural practice and sustainable economic growth" Kriek said in a statement.
The proposed law has spooked some investors fearing it would violate property rights, even prompting a factually incorrect tweet from US President Donald Trump saying he wanted his secretary of state to study"land and farm seizures" in the country.
Source: Real Estate Daily Report (realestatedailyreport.net)
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